Posted on 04/18/2007 5:51:40 PM PDT by LdSentinal
This is why presidential elections matter even if and when you don't particularly like one candidate or the other. The re-election of George W. Bush in 2004 begat the nomination to the United States Supreme Court of Justice Samuel A. Alito, Jr. and Justice Alito's ascenion to the High Court last year begat today a landmark abortion ruling that anti-abortion advocates have pushed to get for years. You can spin this any other way you want but in the end it comes down to a simple matter of personnel. Justice Alito was willing and able to go in the law where his predecessor, former Justice Sandra Day O'Connor wasn't. And, as a result, doctors in this country now may be sent to federal prison for performing a type of abortion procedure even if those doctors believe that a woman's health would be jeopardized by not having the procedure. As the late, great Kurt Vonnegut might have said: so it goes.
Today's sharp 5-4 ruling in Gonzales v Carthart signals a new era in abortion law. With this precedent on the books, legislators in states around the country now can (and will) come forward with similar or slightly different bans upon various types of abortion procedures. We even may see that long-anticipated full, frontal challenge to Roe v. Wade (although opponents of that ruling still don't yet have the solid votes necessary to knock it out of the box). The woman's "health exception," which until today had survived all sorts of legal scrutiny, now is effectively gone and along with it an important line of defense for abortion rights advocates.
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Exactly, and G.W. only went with him because he knew that his first choice disturbed his base. Rudy, John, and Mitt do not have a loyalty to the base, and they will not concern themselves with our views of their SCOTUS nominees.
Hey. So we have decided that you can no longer rip a live baby to shreds during birth, even if the mother’s health ‘might’ be in danger after a complete pregnancy term. Why did we ever think we could? Who came up with this $hit?
Over 1 million babies are aborted in the US each year. That’s 1,000,000+
We can do better.
Yes.. If it was a live delivery... they couldn't kill it. The trauma of this procedure is so bad on the Mom....it jeopardizes her safety.....so I can't see any reason for PBA at all.
How can this be a precedent mr Cohen? The SCOTUS reversed a discusting method of killing under the guise of a 'women's right to choose'. Killing a child that can survive on its own if it were not in his mother's womb is not a presedent mr Cohen. Not allowing an expansion of a monstrous procedure is by no means a "precedent" if anything, mr Cohen it is rectifying a bad law. And yes mr cohen. A child has already been saved today doesn't that make you all warm and fuzzy?
Liberal SOB if there was one
doctors in this country now may be sent to federal prison for performing a type of abortion procedure even if those doctors believe that a woman's health would be jeopardized by not having the procedure. murdering babies at the moment of delivery!
The judges are why Pat Buchanan was for President Bush in 2004, despite other disagreements, and it looks like Buchanan, and those of us who voted for Bush were correct.
“Remember, he wasn’t Bush’s first choice...”
What do you think John Kerry’s first choice would have been?
I am not voting for him, but it seems like he does like it.
http://hotlineblog.nationaljournal.com/archives/2007/04/rudy_decision_w.html
Doesn't matter; nor does it matter what Hillary's first choice would be. If Rudy, Mitt, or John are elected, they will most likely give us a Stephens (appointed by Ford), a Souter (appointed by Bush 41), or maybe, if we're lucky, a Kennedy (appointed by Reagan).
In my view, none of these choices are really better than Ginsberg or Breyer who were appointed by the 'Big He'.
“Giuliani won’t like this ruling!”
But he will nominate the justices that would make the ruling he doesn’t like?
He is advancing an agenda. He has no interest in being fair.
People will say anything to get elected. Pay no attention to that. Judge politicans by their deeds alone.
Hopefully, there will be another voluntary vacancy on the Supreme Court before Bush leaves office.
And this adds, very positively, to President Bush's legacy for those who fret about how history will view him.
There was a more interesting ruling today. Has it been covered here on FR?
>>Remember, he wasn’t Bush’s first choice...<<
Exactly. And remember what was in the air on the eve before the Harriet Miers nomination was deep-sixed?... It was discovered that she had waffled on the abortion issue.
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